by Yvette Walker KANSAS CITY, Mo. — I know, I was a weird kid. Born during the time when parents bought sets of World Book or Britannica encyclopedias, I was the girl who would sit down and read the dictionaries that came with the set. Hey, I was a latchkey kid and had a couple of ...
Book banning and burning is nearly as old as civilization itself — with evidence of manuscripts being burned dating back to the B.C.s — and is often done for the same reasons: politics, religion and “morality” (in quotes because its definition is so subjective). In 200s B.C., ...
The 41st Banned Books Week begins today. Booksellers, librarians and teachers come together for this national event to encourage people to recognize or read banned books and learn about the history of book bans throughout the United States. Banned Books Week dates back to 1982, originally ...
Beth Jane Toren, WVU interdisciplinary, culture and film studies librarian, will present a program, “Banned Books and American Culture,” for the WVU retired faculty and staff at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday. Toren will be sharing perspectives from parents, educators, authors, protestors, young ...
by Solomon D. Stevens Spencer Cox, the new chairman of the National Governors Association, is promoting the idea of “healthy conflict.” The Utah governor has become concerned about the growing problem of toxic arguments in society. As the Washington Post reports, Cox wants people ...
by Will Bunch KUTZTOWN, Pa. — If you ban it, they will come. For the better part of an hour last Saturday, dozens of teenagers and their parents snaked around the towering stacks of tomes inside Kutztown’s Firefly Books and sometimes spilled onto the sidewalks of this ...